Brazil has woken up to city centres still smouldering after a night that shocked the nation: one million protesters took to the streets in scores of cities, with clusters clashing violently with police during anti-government demonstrations.

Was Dame Helen Ghosh, former permanent secretary at the Home Office, right after all about David Cameron surrounding himself with an Old Etonian clique? Among the flourishing OEs are Jesse Norman, who has been appointed to the PM’s policy unit led by fellow MP Jo Johnson, who also wore a tailcoat in Slough. But there’s more. The Government’s new chief technology officer is Liam Maxwell. He didn’t study at Eton but he was its head of IT.